Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f6b2a7648511c52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 02:52:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7083f5e46a91f9bdf41864db769f7569 SHA-1: 7de71e691c55a3216718eaa46937a8e599898172 SHA-256: 7f6b2a7648511c52b2dbb84faace85ef9870e8914d89ed922919ee123b324c74
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-Override T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a link farm and a malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=trueman+biology+pdf+download, which is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through a seemingly legitimate platform.

Heuristics 3

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=trueman+biology+pdf+download
    • http://vobaxad.harveyhensley.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453540/wasidujuwenuwubij.pdf
    • http://rogep.easy-backpacker.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969060/gafijotulotup.pdf
    • http://files.lkonsite.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164364/pebalebukipuxem-zoripudawugejev-dumudadabonobe-goxime.pdf
    • http://files.mhorakphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969472/ragakupe_gepudivunageve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6499/0632/files/70957885173.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9005/9176/files/bifudexemaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1424/8857/files/angle_x_axis_labels_ggplot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6689/2191/files/47444921526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7325/7118/files/zefedoka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7983/5547/files/61509782023.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7482/2044/files/162131612.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wugituvunajobi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8475/0741/files/convert_to_word_doc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2468/4968/files/31750013951.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4173/4311/files/besobuwadumafesenisogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0252/7895/files/blowfish_algorithm_explanation_with_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1954/2434/files/bowarum.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1954

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004a8f.bin
c9fbdeacb9f26f2d38c75fec3f250cc32a717f65fd524302b76e0a75989b3e50
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A8F 5268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c62.bin
7851a0283515f4028953685ed631dd343f30c1e180e638dd9fc0d3d8103e4639
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C62 9932 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007e85.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E85 4324 bytes